embroilment

Example Sentences

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What takes up the book’s pages instead is Bill’s embroilment in another matter of questionable scaffolding: construction-related fraud in the condo board of the high-rise where Bill’s father, Melsor, lives.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2018

I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so "in it", you couldn't even call it an art, it's such embroilment.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2013

Park Slope, Brooklyn, continues its embroilment over a new bike lane along Prospect Park West that is now the subject of a suit against the Transportation Department.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2011

This—Gawker Media’s surreal embroilment in the Gamergate sweepstakes—was hardly an editorial retraction, because there was nothing much to retract, aside from a bad tweet.

From Newsweek

Now, the means of warlike enterprise, as well as of unadvised embroilment, is always in the last analysis the patriotic spirit of the nation.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein